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Beyond and hello everyone, my name is Jonathan Dormbush and this is Podcast Beyond Episode 620.

If you were wondering what that laughter was over the intro, that was Lucia Bryan.

I'm sorry, it's just when Max does goofy things next to me, I can't not.

I was trying to make a face in the camera so it times it right, but I'd do it poorly

and so I'm just making this dumb rictus for like-

And it went on for really long?

Yeah.

Max, of course, is also here with us as is Bryan Altano.

Brr! Thank you all for joining us for this week.

We're going to be diving back into PlayStation history as today as we're recording the day before

the episode goes live is the 25th anniversary of PlayStation.

I'm a better way to celebrate a brand than to talk about our favorite memories of it,

which is what they want us to do, but we're going to do it anyway.

Before we do get into the show, a couple of announcements and I want to read a letter

that, uh, front of the show, Yayaer, sent in a couple of weeks ago,

asked his permission to read this a little bit personal, uh, but Yayaer, who's written

into the show, before, of course, many times, wrote it into say, uh, this was earlier in November,

he wrote, he wrote, hi, had a long and difficult week, but uh, that hopefully turned out okay,

but I figured I'd send this in.

I'm going to zoom in so I can read better.

I hope this gets to the crew, but I wanted to write it to first of all say happy birthday to Max.

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